A Handbook of Hygiene

2nd edition, 1901, of A.M. Davies’ Handbook of Hygiene, which he defines as ‘the Preservation of Health, which comes to the same thing as the Prevention of Disease’; chapters on Air, Ventilation, Water, Food and Dieting, Sewage, Clothing, Soils and Sites, Climate, Causes and Prevention of Disease, Disinfection; b&w text illustrations; being a volume in the Griffin’s Pocket Book series; full maroon flexible calf with gilt titling to front and spine, all edges gilt; this copy Very Good throughout; leather lightly edgeworn; scuffed, worn, and with reading creases to spine.